Arkajyoti "Arka" Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Management Science and Statistics department housed in the Alvarez College of Business. He is also a Core Faculty member of the School of Data Science. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Applied Statistics and Operations Research department at Bowling Green State University. In addition to his doctoral work at the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, he conducted research as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences department at Northwestern University.
Vanessa A. Sansone is an assistant professor of Higher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. She is an expert on racial, spatial and class disparities related to higher education student retention, access, success, and how institutional, state, and national policies impact these issues. In 2020, she was named one of the 35 most outstanding women in higher education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. She was recognized by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) as a top Latina graduate scholar for her service and scholarly contributions to the Latinx community. She has been nationally selected as a faculty fellow with the Rutgers Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.